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This Town Needs Guns (Sargent House, Big Scary Monsters)
With support from Adebisi Shank & And so I watch you from Afar
Thursday 5th February 2009
Whelans, Wexford Street
Doors 8pm and Start ! (Early Show Gig Finished by 10.30pm)
Tickets 10 euro - Available From WAV Box Office at 1890 200 078 or WaV TicketBox,Camden Row,Dublin 2
Oxford is home to the oldest University in the English-speaking world, but more recently has been acknowledged as a musical hotbed with a habit of producing some of the most vital bands around today (Radiohead and Foals, to name a few). Their latest export is This Town Needs Guns, a band being hailed as the darling buds of the thriving UK indie scene. The band have toured across Europe with the likes of I Was A Cub Scout, Meet Me In St Louis, Rolo Tomassi and Maps & Atlases and the release of 2007's split EP with Cats And Cats And Cats garnered critical acclaim from fans and press alike.
This Town Needs Guns entered the studio in April 2008, setting out to find an intricate balance between indie rock, catchy pop and technical prowess, all while ignoring the lure of special effects and studio wizardry. Through this process, their debut full-length Animals was born; a collection of songs that bring to light the band's pure, clever and earnest song writing ability. Tim Collis' guitar sounds as though it's being caressed by 6 hands as his brother, Chris, flings his sticks around the drum kit not wanting to leave any tiny patch un-touched. Bassist Dan Adams completes the rhythm section with his dancey, jazz influenced bass lines while Stuart Smith's vocals dip and soar, taking this record from thought provoking depths to sky-scraping triumphs.
Animals Will be released in the US on Sargent House (Daughters, Maps & Atlases, Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) Early 2009 and is currently on general release in Europe through Big Scary Monsters.
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This is a description of a band called Adebisi Shank
This self made instrumental juggernaut have been razing Belfast to the ground with their remarkable live performance which have been described by the press as stunning and unmissable and for which they achieved gig of the month from NME. After selling out of their much anticipated debut EP in just 6 weeks the mammoth mind melting machine that is And So I Watch You From Afar have been tipped by all the Irish and Northern Irish press, had high praise from Kerrang! and become a firm favourite on BBC Radio 1 receiving nationwide airplay on the Huw Stephens show and having recorded a live session for Radio 1.
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"Oxford-based indie kids take care of the wizardry, combining math-rock time signatures, intricate guitar / bass tapestries and a rip-roaring vocal that swoops above the virtuoso sonics like a musical trapeze artist." 8/10 - Rock Sound
"these songs are emotions transformed into technicalities, love and loss and sadness and insecurity translated into complex time signatures that are arrhythmic yet soothing, mathematical but moving." - The Fly
"When This Town Needs Gun hit their mark they sound stylish, sussed and like reformed mathcore men Minus The Bear covering seminal Mancunian miserablists The Smiths." - Kerrang
"Study Animals with the diligence it deserves and you'll walk away with a knowledge you never expected." - 80% AbsolutePunk.net
"Quick, clever guitar riffs combine with blissful, almost charming vocal work" - 8/10 EmotionalPunk.com
"The band make music that is so accessible with the kind of straight up indie structure, yet the instrumentation is of the highest and most complex technicality which makes it truly stand out." - 3BarFire.com
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Full Irish Date List
Thursday 5th Feb - Whelans - Dublin (Support from Adebisi Shank & And so I watch you from Afar)
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Friday 6th Feb - Cork - Fred Zepplins (Support from The Avalanche Effect[/FONT])
Saturday 7th Feb - Limerick - (Crude Magazine Issue 2 Launch Party)
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Links:
http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns
http://www.sargenthouse.com/
http://www.bsmrocks.com/
http://www.richtercollective.com/
http://www.ondryland.com/
This Town Needs Guns (Sargent House, Big Scary Monsters)
With support from Adebisi Shank & And so I watch you from Afar
Thursday 5th February 2009
Whelans, Wexford Street
Doors 8pm and Start ! (Early Show Gig Finished by 10.30pm)
Tickets 10 euro - Available From WAV Box Office at 1890 200 078 or WaV TicketBox,Camden Row,Dublin 2
Oxford is home to the oldest University in the English-speaking world, but more recently has been acknowledged as a musical hotbed with a habit of producing some of the most vital bands around today (Radiohead and Foals, to name a few). Their latest export is This Town Needs Guns, a band being hailed as the darling buds of the thriving UK indie scene. The band have toured across Europe with the likes of I Was A Cub Scout, Meet Me In St Louis, Rolo Tomassi and Maps & Atlases and the release of 2007's split EP with Cats And Cats And Cats garnered critical acclaim from fans and press alike.
This Town Needs Guns entered the studio in April 2008, setting out to find an intricate balance between indie rock, catchy pop and technical prowess, all while ignoring the lure of special effects and studio wizardry. Through this process, their debut full-length Animals was born; a collection of songs that bring to light the band's pure, clever and earnest song writing ability. Tim Collis' guitar sounds as though it's being caressed by 6 hands as his brother, Chris, flings his sticks around the drum kit not wanting to leave any tiny patch un-touched. Bassist Dan Adams completes the rhythm section with his dancey, jazz influenced bass lines while Stuart Smith's vocals dip and soar, taking this record from thought provoking depths to sky-scraping triumphs.
Animals Will be released in the US on Sargent House (Daughters, Maps & Atlases, Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) Early 2009 and is currently on general release in Europe through Big Scary Monsters.
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This is a description of a band called Adebisi Shank
This self made instrumental juggernaut have been razing Belfast to the ground with their remarkable live performance which have been described by the press as stunning and unmissable and for which they achieved gig of the month from NME. After selling out of their much anticipated debut EP in just 6 weeks the mammoth mind melting machine that is And So I Watch You From Afar have been tipped by all the Irish and Northern Irish press, had high praise from Kerrang! and become a firm favourite on BBC Radio 1 receiving nationwide airplay on the Huw Stephens show and having recorded a live session for Radio 1.
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"Oxford-based indie kids take care of the wizardry, combining math-rock time signatures, intricate guitar / bass tapestries and a rip-roaring vocal that swoops above the virtuoso sonics like a musical trapeze artist." 8/10 - Rock Sound
"these songs are emotions transformed into technicalities, love and loss and sadness and insecurity translated into complex time signatures that are arrhythmic yet soothing, mathematical but moving." - The Fly
"When This Town Needs Gun hit their mark they sound stylish, sussed and like reformed mathcore men Minus The Bear covering seminal Mancunian miserablists The Smiths." - Kerrang
"Study Animals with the diligence it deserves and you'll walk away with a knowledge you never expected." - 80% AbsolutePunk.net
"Quick, clever guitar riffs combine with blissful, almost charming vocal work" - 8/10 EmotionalPunk.com
"The band make music that is so accessible with the kind of straight up indie structure, yet the instrumentation is of the highest and most complex technicality which makes it truly stand out." - 3BarFire.com
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Full Irish Date List
Thursday 5th Feb - Whelans - Dublin (Support from Adebisi Shank & And so I watch you from Afar)
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Friday 6th Feb - Cork - Fred Zepplins (Support from The Avalanche Effect[/FONT])
Saturday 7th Feb - Limerick - (Crude Magazine Issue 2 Launch Party)
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Links:
http://www.myspace.com/thistownneedsguns
http://www.sargenthouse.com/
http://www.bsmrocks.com/
http://www.richtercollective.com/
http://www.ondryland.com/
